Cowes Week - Hardcover

Willis, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 085704012X ISBN 13: 9780857040121

Publisher: Halsgrove, 2010

Synopsis

Cowes Week is a British sporting institution. It is one of the longest running and most successful sporting events we have and has become a highlight of the British sporting summer. It has been held in early August every year since 1826, except during the two world wars.

Cowes Week is a unique mixture of classic and ultra-modern designs with several classes still racing after more than 50 years: Dragons, Flying Fifteens, Redwings, Seaview Mermaids, Solent Sunbeams, Swallows,Victories and XODs. New classes are being introduced as they increase in popularity. The Laser SB3s for example, have been the largest class of the regatta for the past few years.

Cowes Week attracts over 8,500 competitors, ranging from Olympic and world-class yachtsmen and women to weekend sailors - all racing together and watched by over 100,000 visitors to Cowes. One of the most enduring traditions of Cowes Week is the spectacular fireworks display, which has taken place on the final friday of Cowes Week since the very first years.

The regatta is now such an indelible fixture on the British (and international) sporting scene that it is taken for granted that it will continue to thrive and inspire all who love sailing, competition and the ocean for years to come. With over 140 striking and immediate images, Dave Willis captures the excitement, disasters and triumphs of one of the sporting calendar's ultimate events.

About this title

About the Author

Dave Willis has always been a photographer. It's what he does. He's been other things as well but always there was a camera. Born and raised on the south coast, he quit school, left home and left the south to hitch to the lakes and become a climber and a photographer. He learnt the trade as an assistant photographer in Kendal, a press photographer on national papers and an expedition photographer in Patagonia. He returned from Chile in 1990, penniless, homeless and unemployed to set up Mountain Sport Photography - and is still going strong. Dave now works from his base in Shap, on Cumbria's eastern edge, photographing outdoor life, landscape and tourism projects for tourist boards, the outdoor industry, press and stock libraries. He also teaches photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Halsgrove
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085704012X
• ISBN 13: 9780857040121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144